Wimbledon Football Club is Dead; Long Live Wimbledon

Originally published in FourFourTwo at the start of the season in which AFC Wimbledon played their first game in the Combined Counties Leagues, two months after the FA Tribunal gave permission for the Milton Keynes move which the old…

It’s all (gone wrong) at the Co-op

In 2014, I proposed a long-form piece on the crisis affecting the UK’s Co-operative Group for a review journal; they eventually passed on the piece after it was written, but it was too much work to leave lying around….

Applescript to use Notification Center to give Time Machine updates

I’ve done a script which places a notification in notification center after every backup, detailing the size of the backup and the number of files backed up, as well as the time.

The Secret Footballer — Reading the Runes

Like many people, I’ve been intrigued by the Secret Footballer’s column in The Guardian since it started a few years’ back.

I’ve been meaning to write a review of his book when I read it, because in amongst the hype with which it…

Not in the Wider Interests of Football

This article was first published in Yellow & Blue (incorporating Fanzines United) on 2 December 2012, a fanzine put together by fans on the occasion of AFC Wimbledon’s 2nd round match in the FA Cup against a town in Buckinghamshire which stole a league place…

In praise of Kris Stewart

This time 10 years ago, almost to the minute, I was in the Wibbas Down in Wimbledon seeing people with smiling faces. We’d all just voted to form AFC Wimbledon at an amazing meeting at the Wimbledon Community Centre, called by the Wimbledon Independent Supporters Association in the…